BIG NIGHT 2022
Thursday, June 16th
5:00pm - 6:30pm
Deering Oaks Park Bandstand - Portland, ME
Photos by Rylan Hynes, Molly McGrath, and Philip Tran.
Our celebration of young writers published in 2022 included a book fair with sales and signings, author readings, a scavenger hunt, and award announcements. We honored all the students who have been published with The Telling Room this year while launching three new anthologies: Footprints and Stepping Stones, by authors ages 6-11, as well as this year's themed anthology, Echoes from the Basement. The event was free and open to all, and many pulled up a camp chair or a picnic blanket to enjoy the festivities.
Tune into the author readings from the event below, now available on our Soundcloud.
BROWSE BOOKS
Order The Telling Room’s books released on Thursday, June 16th, or stock up on our backlist titles.
GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY:
This year’s writing and publishing programs could not have taken place without the generous support of many individual donors, corporate partners, and grants from the Amazon Literary Partnership; the Anonimo Foundation; the Davis Family Foundation; the Edward H. Daveis Fund of the Maine Community Foundation; the Frances Hollis Brain Foundation Fund of the Maine Community Foundation; the Frog Crossing Foundation; the Jane B. Cook 1992 Charitable Trust; Martin’s Point Health Care; the Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust; the Moser Family Foundation; the Old Bug Light Charitable Foundation; the Onion Foundation; the Portside Fund; the Rines Thompson Fund of the Maine Community Foundation; the Rona Jaffe Foundation; WEX; The Whitehead Foundation; and the Maine Arts Commission, an independent state agency supported by the National Endowment for the Arts. Funding has also been provided by The Maine Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities as part of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. This project is also supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. We thank you all.
A Telling Room Young Writers & Leaders Chapbook